so he is a significant person and the idea of him cooperating with robert mueller is one that unnerves a lot of people. and barbara, he was in the room for the meeting with russians that don jr. said i love it. yeah, there are a lot of issues that robert mueller wants to know the truth about. what happened at that meeting, was there an exchain of information, did president trump know about the meet williing. and why did paul manafort offer a private briefing about the campaign to an oligarch and about why the platform of the gop changed to be more pro russia. so there are a lot of things. and robert mueller is only interested in the truth. and if the truth means that people need to be held accountable, he will do that. so i think everybody is on the same page here that we all hope that paul manafort tells the
presidential transition. he solicited a payment from the government of qatar in 2016 in exchain for access to and advice about the then incoming administration. the offer with qatar declined came on the margins of a december 12 meeting at the trump tower, cohen did not participate in the official meetings but spoke separately to a member of the qatari delegation. joining our discussion now, jennifer rogers, a former federal prosecutor, harry litman is with us, a former federal prosecutor, and david corn, washington bureau chief and co-author of the new best-seller, russian roulette . he s also an msnbc political analyst. and jennifer, i would like to begin with your observations about where this summer zervos lawsuit might take us.
i m upset. i know folks are upset. i hope that come tomorrow there are folking outside the doors of the senate democrats that voted for this bill. i hope there are people outside of the office this kills the momentum? it throws salt on the wound. we re having difficult intra-party conversations right now. you cannot say you stand with dreamers and every opportunity that one had over the last four months to legislatively demonstrate that you cave. i want to i m going help you pak the point. in january of 2017 this is in january. president trump said we ll take care of the kids. daca kidment september 5 he ended the daca program. he agreed to a deal to legalize daca in exchain for border security. that didn t happen.
health care system in our country, we would be glad to work with you, as long as you are not knocking 20 million people off health care. you are not eliminating planned paur parenthood, hurting people with pre-existing conditions. if you want to change incentives on the plans, if you want to provide a public option in some of the exchain exchanges, we wi with you. there are bipartisan opportunities out there. not if you are going to hurt more americans than you help. i have heard overtures from both sides tof the aisle. it will be interesting to see who will reach across the aisle and who will do it first. i appreciate your time. thank you very much. sure. take care. coming up, a pro-trump super pac pulled back on its attack ad on a republican senator who was against the health care bill. it comes just after senator mitch mcconnell reportedly called it a stupid move and reportedly a lot of other folks